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Feel free to expand on the weirdly loving handler and living weapon thingy you blessed our eyeballs with 👀👀
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The thingy in question
With pleasure :D
I hope you wanted a lot more because this got long.
You can have:
Cuddles with undertones of power dynamics
Handler gently guiding/maneuvering a currently very dissociated living weapon (possibly after a hard mission/battle/something else that was difficult for them to go through)
Dogged loyalty and devotion
Weapon too conditioned to fully understand what they’re feeling
Both protective of each other but express it in different ways according to their roles
Denial. Denial that the living weapon is really a person, denial that one or both of them have gotten too attached/emotional about the other, denial about the ways the relationship is unhealthy, whatever else.
Can’t express their love/care the way two people normally would but find other ways to show it to each other.
They get each other in a certain way that no one else does, see sides of each other that aren't shown in many other situations
The drastic contrast between violence on the field and tenderness in private
And it comes in different varieties
Flavor 1: “I take care of my things.”
Very possessive
Heavy on the dehumanization
Handler/owner won’t let the weapon forget that they’re no more than an object in their eyes; every kindness and comfort serves as a reminder of this because each one is the handler taking care of and maintaining a thing that belongs to them.
—But they’re a very valued object. Maybe they’re expensive. Maybe they’re irreplaceable. Maybe the handler is very picky discerning about what kind of living weapon they’ll work with and others don’t fit the bill. Maybe they’ve saved the handler’s life more times than anyone else the handler has worked with on the field. Regardless of the reason, the handler won’t even entertain the idea of tossing the weapon aside like any other object.
A form of ownership that looks a lot like love. It’s hard to tell where the lines are drawn between sole ownership and monogamy, between maintenance and tenderness, between carefulness and caringness.
Handler definitely will not share. This weapon is theirs and theirs alone. You are not taking it on a mission without them.
Flavor 2: Basically BDSM but more questionable in the “safe, sane, and consensual” department.
Heavy on the affection & fondness. Probably in both directions.
Handler treats the weapon as more than an object, but never as a peer. They’re beloved but ultimately expected to obey.
One or both of them delight in their unequal roles.
Likely some kind of tension and want between the handler and the weapon. Also probably in both directions.
Some dubcon intimacy going on. I’ll let you decide how dubious and how intimate. Suffice it to say, the weapon is conditioned to do what their handler tells them, and that conditioning doesn’t just disappear when they leave the battlefield.
Maybe there is some consent involved, at least at some stage. Maybe they volunteered to become a living weapon out of their own desires.
Flavor 3: Stuck in this situation and doing what they can to be nice
Handler knows this is a weapon but it looks so human
Surely the conditioning can’t completely eliminate their emotions. They must be able to feel the difference between kindness and callousness even if they don’t show it. It would be cruel not to give them gentleness and comfort when they’re past the point of being able to seek it out for themself.
Finding excuses for the “unnecessarily” nice treatment. It’s to keep them operating in peak condition. It’s to reinforce their loyalty to their handler and contrast with the violence of the enemy. It’s because it would be more unnecessary work for the handler to break the habits they formed interacting with actual people. It’s because the handler has fallen for those doe eyes.
Would probably decondition them if they were in any place to do so. But they have to answer to a higher power, whether that be a commanding officer or a greater moral good, etc. so instead they focus on making the aspects that they can control of the situation they are in more merciful and comfortable even as they continue to use them as a weapon.
Flavor 4: Love each other but both believe the dehumanization.
Conditioned like you wouldn’t believe
Maybe the handler has fallen for propaganda. Maybe they took the weapon at their very conditioned word. Maybe they’ve gone through some kind of conditioning themself. Regardless, they see the living weapon as just that: a living weapon. Definitely not a person, but not some lifeless, inanimate thing either.
There’s a deep, non-sexual intimacy to the relationship between a weapon and its wielder. To depend on another to save your life time and again, to destroy foes you could never overcome with your own bare hands. To trust someone so deeply you respond to their orders faster than you can assess a threat or target yourself, so completely you don’t even think to question them. To participate together in the intense acts of killing and fighting for your life.
That forms a bond no one else can truly understand. No relationship in polite society compares with one founded on mortal peril and unquestioning faith.
In the end one is a person and one is a weapon, but they’ve both developed a love for the other. Their relationship is built on the difference in their roles and functionally inextricable from that difference, yet is defined by more than roles alone. If you asked them what they were to each other they would say “It’s my weapon” and “They’re my wielder” with absolute surety, but they would say it with love in their eyes and fondness in their voices.
Flavor 5: Handler doesn’t realize how deeply gentle their treatment affects the weapon
Maybe the handler considers it basic human decency. Maybe they consider it more efficient to keep their weapon in top condition. Maybe they’re just a naturally gentle person. Regardless, they treat the weapon better than any handler or trainer before them but (at least initially) don’t think much of it.
No one else has shown the weapon any sort of kindness since before they were a weapon.
Taken by surprise when the weapon breaks down crying in a tender moment
Handler is kind because it just makes sense. Cruelty doesn’t serve any purpose. It doesn’t have especial meaning to them.
In contrast, the kindness means everything to the living weapon. They become deeply devoted to the handler over it.
Maybe the handler finds out how much it means to the weapon. Do they try to tell them it’s no big deal? Do they make it more of a point to always show that kindness now that they know how important it is? Do they worry this means the weapon needs more conditioning?
I’ve had this on the mind a lot can you tell
#I also have a half-written drabble relating to this but I'm not sure when I will get it finished.#mmm flavor 4… I mean what I’m not biased#anon you let the genie out of the bottle. I didn't expect this answer to get half this long but it's surpassed 1000 words.#living weapon whump#living weapon whumpee#carewhumper#grey caretaker#conditioning#conditioned whumpee#toxic love#living weapon x handler#whump#whump thoughts#whump tropes#whumpblr#asks#anon ask#my posts#my non writing posts
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240621 hynjinnnn instagram story
#hyunjin#skz#stray kids#jeongin#insta#i feel like if i ruffled his hair i would get three wishes like from genie in the bottle..#my love for you goes so strong im willing to be your personal mirror wiper.
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favorite FOP characters part deux (this time with more of them)
#fairly oddparents#fop a new wish#fop fanart#fop cupid#fop sanderson#juandissimo magnifico#hazel wells#jasmine tran#winn harper#fop tootie#fop mark chang#fop cosmo#fop wanda#dale dimmadome#dev dimmadome#fop irep#fop peri#sammy sweetsparkle#norm the genie#remy buxaplenty#timmy turner#fop head pixie#my art#WHEW got a little carried away there#this was supposed to be like. 4-5 characters max#but then i couldnt stop#foop and irep because i love him#better watch out peri. norm might make you married to dale#sorry for the cosmo. it had to be done.#hazel is supposed to be holding a geode. but its. messy
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These episodes were always my favorites
#I can’t stop!!#I would do more for the genie too but I’m not good at replicating the Disney style#dw Genie I still love you#I’ll definitely draw more genie x Reese in my style#my art#nostalgiacore#cartoony art#f/o#f/o tag#2000s#fairly oddparents#jorgen von strangle#fop fanart#fop#fake screenshot#fake screencap#self insert#selfship#selfshipping#self ship community#canon x s/i#canon x oc#canon x self insert
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omg could you do leo valdez with ocd reader 🥺 ... i love how you write him smmmm!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
OF COURSE BABES. first of all for anyone who doesn't know there are a lot of different types of OCD, and no matter what type or types you have, you could not find someone more supportive than Leo motherfucking Valdez. OCD is hard to have and hard to treat and guess what???? he's gonna learn everything he can about it and work with you to figure out how to help you when things are bad and good and all the little uppy downy in between parts.
adding a read more so this doesn't trigger anyone (cw: mentions of contamination, checking, vague mentions of intrusive thoughts, religious ruminations and magical thinking, please do not engage with this post if it could trigger you!!! I love yall <3)
if you have the contamination kind and you're always stuck feeling like nothing's clean enough, Leo understands. He'll take over for you, he'll cast eyes over things and remind you that you did what you're supposed to do and help distract you with something else. He knows to check dates on the groceries he buys you, knows how to help you feel better without accidentally enabling your compulsions.
if you have checking compulsions like relocking doors and making sure the stove is off and appliances are unplugged, he starts doing the closing up routine at night for you. you have a house rule that you're only allowed to check things two times, then Leo will check once for you if you need him to, then he helps you move onto something else. If you're worried that the stove is on and it's going to burn down the house, he never fails to make you laugh by promising to be the one to deal with all the insurance guys.
"Worst case scenario? We pull off the greatest insurance scam in history and retire early to the Swiss alps."
he says it so casually that it never fails to make you laugh, it takes the sting and the stress from your thoughts a little.
if religious ruminations or magical thinking are more your thing, Leo actually knows exactly what to do about that. he pulls out a golden drachma and cuddles with you while he fidgets with it.
"I can get a direct line to any god. If one of them starts beefing with you, I will personally handle it." he kisses you. he mumbles against your lips, and he smiles when he gets you to smile. "I'll also remove every screw, nut, bolt, and support beam in their entire palace and turn everything into breakaway prop furniture."
when your intrusive thoughts get bad he holds your shaky hands and promises that he won't ever let you do anything that could hurt you or someone else, he goes through your affirmations and grounding exercises with you, he reminds you that thought crimes are not crimes.
no matter what your symptoms are or how bad they get, Leo's love for you and deep knowledge that you are an amazing, wonderful, incredible person never wavers. he loves you. he loves being with you, he loves helping you, he loves being the one to care for you. Leo loves knowing that he's able to support you, to ease your burden and make sure you don't feel like you're alone. and you're never going to be alone, because nothing could ever scare Leo away from you. he just loves you too much.
#look if there really are genie rules (aka magical thinking) that bring you down I go dow#with you and we BOTH go down swinging#tw ocd#tw: ocd#cw ocd#cw: ocd#ocd#ocd mention#leo valdez#leo valdez x reader#leo valdez drabbles#heroes of olympus#heroes of olympus x reader#heroes of olympus drabbles#speaking from experience if you couldn't tell lol#yk that tiktok that's like “the cheese is under the sauce”#that's me making sure there's no mold on my food (I already know there's not)#love being in therapy!#in my case specifically love that Leo's just like#he's such a fucking PEACH#I love him so fuckin much#leo when I'm stressed about smth: “what do we do to fix this”#me with a fuckton of religious trauma: “pray harder”#leo: “no-”#but yeah he loves you and supports you#he really is your lighthouse in the turbulent sea of your own mind#he's steadfast and you know that he is#you really get each other through so much#also anon I hope you're doing okay!!! I hope you have whatever resources you need <33 /gen#and I AM NOT QUALIFIED TO HELP PEOPLE IN ANY WAY but if you ever need resources or smth you can always shoot me a message and i'll do my be
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can I interest anybody in a Sonic and the Secret Rings comic I made 4 years ago
#shannon's art#still proud of this honestly#I really loved it when I made it#had fun adding to the dialogue#I remember Shahra’s face was really hard for me to get right I knew even less about anatomy then than I do now#Also I KNOW I misspelt Shahra’s name in the comic forgive me please I was young#sonic fanart#sonic the hedgehog#satsr#sonic and the secret rings#shahra the genie#sonic fancomic#there is no rhyme or reason to my posting schedule you'll get months with nothing and then I'll spam you for 72 hours straight#i still love this game's story you can take it from my cold dead hands
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#i wanna carry him around too
#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#nandor the relentless#djinn wwdits#kayvan novak#anoop desai#genie my love i miss you every day 🖤#this scene was a highlight of the finale for me#my stuff
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Demanding more lisp
posts in which it is imperative that wade be read with a fruity obnoxious little gay lisp:
#ask-spiderpool#she's a LETHSBIAN harold.#hoh-moh-SECKS-ssuals...#i love wade intentionally having the most ridiculous pronunciation in the world for certain words.#penetration... penatracione... pen-ah-TRRAh-see-oh-neh#it's very important you roll the Rs...#your erectioné in this directioné...#i hate this man and his mouth.#i have such a vivid and stupid voice for wade wilson that lives in my head and i hear him so clearly#and im just like so. so upset that i can't manifest this voice and have all of you hear it#he has the MOST stupid way of talking ever and i so want to animate to it.#it's something like robin william's genie from aladdin. an animator's delight. he's so. so theatric. all the time.#and he's constantly changing and shifting accents and impressions and mannerisms.#just whatever he can to make the delivery as funny as possible.#he has this universally ambigious accent all the time. and he's so. so good at accents.#he's just totally brilliant at mimicry. you should hear his peter parker impression. it's perfect. he nails it. peter is so mad about it.#he absolutely can answer the phone as peter and nobody is the wiser.#if he dons peter's tights nobody would discern from voice alone. they'd only be able to tell by the different body types.
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Looney, eh?
Free my man Albert he ain’t done nothin wrong, other than hogging all the tail, pun intended 🔥
Extras yayyy 🤭🤭
#I love you FOP genies#Norm the Genie#Uncle Albert Crocker#((is that a tag?? does anyone even remember uncle Albert??#the other guys don’t have names but I hc that pink guy is Charo and girly girl is named Jeannie respectively#fairly oddparents#jortsdraws
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No cause it is literally me when I enjoy something before it gets super popular and then once it gets hyped I can no longer force myself to watch it even tho I know I will enjoy it and I only come back when the hype dies down cue the jjk airing finished and then I get obsessed once everybody lost any interest in it. So like please join me in this insanity
ANON YOU LITTRALY GET IT!! I don't know what it is, I can't love something when it's being hyped and loved by everyone else. It feels so in your face. Like I had a crush on Geto when he was the mysterious guy back in season 1 and now that he has development and a backstory I just don't feel attracted to him (or anyone of the characters). But I know I will be frothing at the mouth for him once the hype dies and people forget who he even is. Seriously look at him!! I should be on my knees barking for him, I should be dreaming about all the way he's going to kidnap me and cherish me. BUT I just CAN'T😭😭
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE😭😭😭 ATSV literally thought me that jumping on hype trains does wonders for your post activity and interactions yet my illogical ass can't fall in love with something once it gets mass media attention. I SERIOUSLY APPRECIATE HAVING A COMRADE IN THIS INSANTIY🙏 💜🙏💜🙏 Anon we are both in the same hell😭😭
#It goes double for Sukuna and Gojo#loved them to the moon and back#now I'm like sukuna who?#Gojo what?#I hate this#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#geto suguru#jjk geto#geto x reader#yandere geto#gojo satoru#gojo x reader#yandere#yandere x reader#yancore#yandere x you#genie talks#jujutsu kaisen x reader
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Genuary2024 prompt Dream/Imagination
Why Gene signing "Like a Commet" (Steven Universe) for this first prompt?
Well cause you need a lot of imagination to think it XD
Kidding, uhm this is confidential information but I kinda been thinking about making a comic with Gene as the protegonist, I won't say anything else. Second protagonist Jimmy Jr. Okay nothing else. Is about Gen in his first year of High Schol. THIS IS NOT ABOUT THIS.
So the comic start with Gene dreaming of his first day in high school and the dream is Gene singing "Like a Comet" in front of the whole school everyone calling their name and cheering for them.
Rebuscado? Rebuscadisimo. Which mean over elaborate and overthinked. But it was the first thing I thought.
Oh and there's some reference to "The Frond Files" and other episodes specially on Gene's keyboard.
#bob's burgers#my art#geneuary2024#genie beanie#people im super dissapointed with the results#even the lineart is far from my best#but i decided this post would be about my baby#and not about me whining#I'll whine later#I love Gene and one symbol that I really associate with her is the Star#so her singing about being a comet which for me is like a big star with tail seems right#I don't think Gene and Greg had that much in common#but I think this is a really fitting song for my bean#and I swear the bi colors were an accident#I was making a mess with the color palette#and ended like this#hope you like it#kinda
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do you have any favorite tennis matches? what's your favorite player and rivalry if you have one?
(note, I will be leaving both agassi + sampras out of this post as they have already been discussed in a fair bit of detail on this blog, though I might at some point make a post specifically about their matches. obviously they'd be pretty high up in all three categories with regards to favourite matches, players, and rivalries)
I have a lot of favourite tennis matches!! I'll throw a few of them under the cut, but honestly give me half a chance and I'll go on forever. my all time favourite tennis match is the 2003 us open semifinal between justine henin and jennifer capriati. it is available in full on youtube and I think you should watch it even if you have only the slightest interest in tennis. this is a match you need to experience for yourself and I will not spoil the result, but it features basically everything you could ask for:
very high stakes, both in terms of being a slam semi and for both players involved. it's an interesting stretch of henin's career, plenty of controversies that season and the potential for a rematch with countrywoman clijsters in the final. capriati during her noughties career revival had FINALLY managed to overcome her issues in late stages of slams and had won three of them... but her home slam at the us open was the one she wanted to win most of all. a history of semifinal choking she was attempting to conquer in front of her home crowd - fighting a woman six years her junior who had already tasted slam success that year
two very different personalities, the cold and calculating henin against the ferocious and passionate capriati... both not strangers to a little bit of gamesmanship, and of course you see that on display in this match too. keep an eye on the poor line judges
two contrasting but similarly engaging playstyles, the boisterous force of capriati coming up against henin's lethally elegant all-court game. henin's one handed backhand better than sex question mark. it's a great stylistic match-up, and produces some excellent tennis across the entire span of the match. just SUCH a great watch, like I really cannot speak highly enough of the level on display
a highly involved crowd who want their home favourite to win SO BADLY and are more than happy to do anything to help her cause. gets a bit wild, like the best us open matches tend to do
some truly insane momentum switches, many prompted by psychology and some prompted by physicality. one player's body starts letting her down in the final set in pretty striking fashion. one player's mind plays havoc with her, possibly even more memorably so. a very dramatic finale
the cruelty of tennis on full display. a match where you suffer for both players, who both want it so badly and are visibly fighting demons on the court. truly, truly brutal for the loser
I love this match so so much. I know it's very on-brand to direct you to a match from over two decades ago, but I promise you. it's worth it. sometimes the old stuff is the best
and do I EVER have a favourite player and rivalry!!!!!!
MY GIRLS. okay, look, they're both extremely retired and had their last match in 2010 BUT it is still my favourite rivalry!!!!!!! here, have another bit of my output for them:
wE hAvE aLwaYs ProTEcTEd tHis iMAge oF friENdShip tHat nEVeR eXistEd istgggggggg NOTHING WAS BROKEN BETWEEN US BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING TO BREAK
if you've ever heard someone be extremely annoying about federer's game, you probably can imagine what I sound like talking about henin. she's got my favourite backhand of all time, I genuinely think it is a work of art. I love how she moves, the way she unleashes on balls on the run, I love how she gets into the court in such a lithe and precise manner to pick up the next ball. I love how effective the serve is despite her height (number one commentating cliché for her lol, she's short we get it). the slices, the gorgeous drop volleys, the laser straight forehand... and again, the backhand. when she takes a swing at that thing and fucking pummels it past her opponent, stretches her wings to make the ball soar, it's just truly my favourite shot of all time. there's a specific backhand crosscourt on-the-run pass she hits in that aforementioned us open semifinal where... yeah. what can you even say. better than sex full stop
and well... okay, look, I am AWARE a lot of fans still hate her and I do get that she won't be everyone's cup of tea. but y'know. sometimes you just have to support women's rights and wrongs, and I do think some of the criticism of her is also a bit overblown. she's a cheater, yes, I won't argue with that. but I think sometimes cheating is interesting!! she really really really really needed to win, she was cold and ruthless about it - but also, I'm sorry, people would NOT have hated her quite so much if she were a man. and I'm also not saying a sad life story justifies cheating etc etc, but I do wish people were a bit more interested in why she needed to win so badly. she also has the number one athlete attribute that makes my brain go crazy - a deeply conflicted relationship with the sport itself. always caught between running towards and running away from tennis... yeah. god
the single best resource in tennis is a website called tennisabstract, it really is fantastic, I've contributed a bit to their match coding project before and definitely will again when my schedule's freed up a bit. I have a lot of time for the guy who runs it, I really do. there's this series he did, tennis 128, where he listed the top 128 players of all time according to his metric and wrote a piece for each of them... and I think they're all very interesting, it's a great project. but. there's a good chance henin got the most negative write-up of the lot, in a way I have to admit I take issue with. some excerpts:
well, tough luck. I don't care. the lgbt community has forgiven justine henin. look at what a cute tomboy she was as a teenager:
look at her holding a bird trophy:
wifey
the other half of that rivalry is her fellow belgian clijsters. very much a case of two narratives haunting each other!! do not separate!! anyhow, she's another player with a game I absolutely adore, these big scything groundstrokes but ALSO plenty of variety, like we're not talking a dull baseline basher here. and the movement!! sliding on a hard court is STILL pretty rare in the women's game, so it's very much seen as something associated with clijsters and clijsters alone:
life changing thighs is what I'll say
clijsters was everything henin was not - warm, popular in the locker room and with fans, a cheery outgoing personality who always had plenty of people rooting for her. she was also seen as too nice to win. and there are few things on this planet that get me going more than a choker. than somebody who just... freezes in the most important matches of her life. which for a while there had a nasty habit of involving henin, because of course they did
clijster's another one with a really fascinating career arc, one that is inextricably linked with henin's story - and thing is, she did get her happy ending. she's the feel-good story, proof that even chokers might be able to make it in the end. she conquered her demons... one of the very, very, very few to do so. she changed the narrative of her career completely. now I DO hate how this kinda... low key gets implicitly used as another stick to thwack henin with, this kind of, ooh!! look!! you can be a good person and be successful too!! which! idk. god forbid we root for a flawed athlete now and again. but I think this does a disservice to clijsters - not least because she WAS pretty nasty about henin in a way she wasn't about basically anyone else. henin and clijsters are more than just sinner and saint... don't let tennis fans tell you otherwise
and yeah, the two of them obviously had a bit of an emotionally tortured rivalry. belgium cooked up two insanely good tennis players born exactly one year and one week apart, the only two players of that stature the country has ever produced. they made each other better and they made each other worse. friends and enemies and something in between... and in the end, fundamentally inseparable. citadels have been built on less
anyway tbh I'm not going to pretend like anyone is summoning up that kind of narrative juice these days, but obviously I still have my faves. as regular blog readers may be aware, my favourite current player is this washed string bean who mostly just loses to more talented players and throws tantrums these days. I'll support him until his time runs up though. medvedev's got this fantastically unorthodox game that I could dissect all day, he's the smartest top player, he's funny as shit. his game should never have worked and he has no right to be as successful as he is. I could hold a lecture series on his forehand. I'm very much a pusher-inclined fan... I like counterpunchers, I like players who run around a lot and defend, and I also like tacticians. I was a pretty early adopter because I love a quirky playstyle and weird technique, which was then affirmed with the miami 2018 debacle (iykyk). but there was a moment I knew I would be his fan for life, and if you are a tennis fan you can probably guess what's coming:
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"so I want all of you to know, when you sleep tonight, I won because of you" I fell in love
never ever has he let me down on the drama front. his "oops I did it again" basel 2018 instagram post, his "I think I killed someone? my apologies" from us open 2020, "if I die, who'll take responsibility" from olympics 2021, the "it's easier to enjoy life when you have no brain" paris 2021 monologue, the yawn at turin 2021, stomping on the ground davis cup 2021, the "his father can talk every point" ao 2022 rant, "I'm gonna pee as slow as this court" from iw 2023, when he got rid of the singles stick monte carlo 2023 plus the "look at yourself in the mirror" press conference comment, "vamo vamo vamo" from uso 2023... I could keep going. "shut your fuck up" has become a part of my vocabulary icl. I love his press conferences and watch a lot of them, just consistently a very interesting guy to listen to. he is unfortunately sort of hellish to follow as a fan, but y'know. sometimes it's not just trophies that make the journey worth it (cope)
women's tennis, my actual faves have basically disappeared from the scene this year so I'm not even gonna dignify them by mentioning their names. I am pretty ride-or-die for dasha kasatkina, a useless pusher who's also the wta's highest ranked lesbian and makes a vlog with her girlfriend I definitely recommend. I like her tennis a lot in all its horrendous pushing, she's very sweet and fun and produces an obscene number of cute photos with her girlfriend. beyond that, I suppose I am basically a swiatek and sabalenka fan this year, I find both of them highly engaging in different ways, I love how they're like... actually very good but are also seemingly constantly fighting demons. basically the two most compelling players in the game currently TO ME. I'm really really enjoying their rivalry, my main complaint is that I wish they played more (praying iga's new coach fixes her during the off-season). they produced by far the best match this year, madrid final, which I'd also absolutely recommend. but yeah, I generally vibe with all the top players of the women's game, if to differing extents!! really strong era at the minute that also promises to keep getting better. we pray
anyhow. a few more favourite matches - I'm going to try and hold myself back, because I really could go on forever. a lot of the old matches I watch are from noughties wta, but I'll limit myself because I'm aware this really is probably of interest to nobody and give just a further two - sharapova/henin wta finals 2007 and venus/davenport wimbledon 2005. both pretty normie picks, but sometimes the normie picks are normie picks for a reason
for my sins, I do have a few big three matches in fairly regular rotation, typically on in the background when I'm working. main ones are djokovic/federer us open 2011, djokovic/federer wimbledon 2019, djokovic/federer wimbledon 2014, and djokovic/nadal roland garros 2021. I also have a bunch of murray matches in rotation but I tend to mix it up for him more... my other go-to run is all of leylah fernandez's pre-final us open 2021 matches, which are just consistently bonkers in the best possible way. there's a few other recent-ish matches I really like to revisit, like iga/sublanko madrid 2023, fernandez/osorio monterrey 2022, kerber/juvan strasbourg 2022...
and then, of the more recent-ish men's matches, pretty obvious where my biases lie. medvedev/djokovic cincy 2019, med/wawrinka uso 2019, med/nadal atp finals 2020, med/thiem atp finals 2020, med/djokovic uso 2021, med/sinner atp finals 2021 (conceptually hilarious match), med/faa ao 2022 (go-to flight match, this one), med/tsi ao 2022, rune/djokovic paris 2022 (and honestly that whole rune run), med/zverev monte carlo 2023 (don't feel great about including this but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love it), rune/sinner monte carlo 2023, rune/foki madrid 2023, med/alcaraz uso 2023 (I promised I'd sing the american national anthem if he won that match so that's a voice note that still exists out there)... and so on
I could keep going, but I'll cut myself off here. and end things with my personal favourite instagram post tennis has produced. from after the aforementioned rune/foki madrid match:
'personally I hold nothing against the Spanish people' dw king I'll do it for you
#i WILL do a proper henin/clijsters write up because i got an ask so i know ONE person out there cares#you write “a benevolent monarch she was not” as if that's a BAD thing. like a fool. like a loser#“she would've happily fought her way to the top with violence and palace intrigue” a perfect athlete. to me#how did MARGARET COURT get a kinder write-up. i can excuse homophobia but i draw the line at cheating in a tennis match#again nothing against tennisabstract editor tennisabstract editor is my friend#but i do think there is consistently a lot of Gender about how people talk about both henin & clijsters. taming of the shrew vs virgin mary#and henin's story is so SAD like my god sure we can villainise this young woman but also... idk man. somebody give her a hug#i think a lot about how the only real biography available of her basically reads like a hit piece sponsored by her father#give me three genie wishes and i'd be seriously tempted to make one of them the chance to ghost write her autobiography#//#batsplat responds#racquet tag#< fine. you got me. i'll make a tennis tag. i haven't back tagged yet but i will at some point#btw henin also a massive massive steffi graf fan who is ofc agassi's wife in tennis' sweetest love story... faves inception#obviously i also have a massive soft spot for graf
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Oh holy one, cast thy purifying light upon these corrupt souls.
I hadn't drawn my sweet daughter in so long. I also hadn't yelled to the world how much I love Symphonia's glittery wings in a long time. I was obsessed with them as a kid and still am as an adult.
Old version of this below, as usual !
#tales of symphonia#tos#colette brunel#I had a Mithos one that I could redo too#they're both my kids your honor#so is Genis and I never drew him much I could change that#Lloyd too but I have a few issues with his hair usually#like it's. it's not supposed to hold like this sir I have no idea what you did there#but I might try again !#anyway I love these kids all of them#except for Zelos I don't like Zelos at all#Kratos either but like it's less worse if it makes any sense#anyway
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The Nature of Do-young and Dong-soo's Relationship
To start, I want to bring up how Do-young himself categorises their relationship, comparing it to Moon Sang-guk and Kim Jae-yeol.
This in itself is interesting because it shows just how aware and conscious he is of how closely they mirror their enemies. But what's even more interesting is the framing of this moment and this scene in general. Do-young and Dong-soo are sitting down, side by side, equal in height and distance. But does this mean that their relationship is now balanced? No and this is enforced by Do-young's answer to Dong-soo's question.
"They're like us. An attorney and a client."
By bringing up their roles in their relationship, Do-young emphasises the power dynamic in their partnership. Dong-soo is his attorney, hired by him to serve the his [the client's] needs. The same way that it may seem like Moon Sang-guk and Kim Jae-yeol have equal levels of power, it's clear who wields the sword and who buckles beneath it's weight.
This is made even more clear throughout the episode as we see Dong-soo coming up with clever plans to further the success of Do-young's business. However, unlike in previous episodes, Dong-soo receives verbal praise and recognition from Do-young, an act that pleases Dong-soo and continues to embolden him throughout the episode, leading him to make more daring moves on behalf of their joint goal.
One of these daring acts is when Dong-soo decides to visit Kim Jae-yeol in hospital in order to increase his distrust in Moon Sang-guk. However, this visit leads to Dong-soo almost losing his own life as he gets attacked by Jae-yeol's bodyguard. But while Dong-soo tries to fight him off, who comes to his rescue, who saves him from near death?
Do-young.
This singular moment bares so much significance in their relationship because this act is not only intimate, it's personal. Not only is this filmed in such a way to reflect this but Dong-soo's expression communicates just how pivotal this was!
In the past, Do-young has sent Oh-jae, his right-hand man, to save Dong-soo from a rival gang's attempts to hurt him. But for the man himself to come down from his throne and personally prevent such an attack speaks volumes. But what's interesting about this scene is their power dynamic remains unchanged. Do-young doesn't even help Dong-soo up, he looks down on him, fixing him into submission by a mere glance, a powerful gaze.
This formidable control that Do-young has over Dong-soo is shown throughout the episode. From Do-young's mere presence being a motivation for Dong-soo to brutally beat up the Family Gang's leader, and his need for Do-young's validation inspiring him to take even more dangerous risks.
But the moment that enforces this the most for me is how Dong-soo reacts when Do-young answers his phone call. Now after learning that Kim Jae-yeol's arrest was suspended, Do-young ignores Dong-soo's call earlier in the episode, punishing him for failing to achieve their plans. But later on, when Dong-soo calls him again, Do-young picks up and this is how Dong-soo reacts.
Not only was Dong-soo holding his breath as the phone was ringing, but when he hears that he's been connected, Dong-soo inhales deeply, almost out of relief, as if this mere action was a gift from God, a sign that he was back in his good graces.
This hold that Do-young has on him is even further enforced when Beom-jae warns him that the gangster is using him for his own goals, to which Dong-soo replies:
"So what? To catch Moon Sang-guk, I need Seo Do-young too."
Dong-soo acknowledges that he's being used and accepts it, the same way that he accepts Do-young's gifts, which he was given even more of in this episode! And it's this power dynamic based on validation and submission that is at the core of their relationship.
Dong-soo allows himself to be moulded into whatever Do-young desires/needs and in return Do-young gives Dong-soo special treatment, allowing him to make decisions on behalf his business and share his power. And it's these components of their partnership that keep them balanced and their relationship intact. Both of them know their roles and the mutual benefits they receive from their alliance. It's this awareness that will keep them together and help them to become stronger than their enemies. (at least I hope🥺️😭)
#hope you enjoyed this meta#i just love exploring their relationship!#it's so interesting!#evilive#evillive#biography of a villain#shin ha kyun#kim young kwang#seo do young#han dong so#kdrama#ena#genie tv
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"the winged lion is evil" hes fucking hungy
#let bitches be hungry !!!!!#dungeon meshi spoilers#😭😭 also its in its nature... it wants to be human so bad.... goooooddddd... doomed by the narrative antagonists my beloved#'' it was gonna destroy the world'' 🦁 <- hungry#sidenote even tho its not evil doesnt mean its good. nuance nuance etc etc...#i think the winged lion is a metaphor for love and addiction and destruction that comes from ppl who love others a lot#the consumption of others ... personality on a platter ... smth smth metaphors guys fucking metaphors.#maybe commentary on the genie tropes like becareful what u wish for etc etc.#😋 winged lion the furries love you....#im not even a furry i just respect their beliefs
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FEET ANON??? I’m pissing myself can u imagine ☠️☠️☠️
“wh-why do u love me senpapi?” 🥺
“darling ,, my love.. [yan rubs hands together deviously, a melancholic expression on their seraphic features] your best quality is that … you got those gorilla grippers.. the tremendously beautiful toes.. that gorgeous arch to ur foot.. that i dream about. now lemme suck.”
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD AND OFF MY BLOG RAHHHHH 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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